When I see red, do you see red too?? or do you see green?

Question

Is everyone's perception of colour the same? When I see red do you see red too? or do you see green? or do you see a colour I do not know, or could even imagine?

Answer 1

No question of traffic lights, I guess... Everybody have learned how some external influences are affecting her/him and has collected these experiences in her/his mind.

I think that a more important question is: how do we feel these external inputs of our senses? Can we actually compare them with similar experiences of others?

I am afraid that it is not possible.

We are living in the world of our own, which is usually an excellent thing (= we can construct a world of our own) but, sorry to say, cannot exchange distinct feelings and expressions with others.

Answer 2

More or less we see the same.

Males tend to have a higher incidence of color blindness. Here the most likely is difficulty in distinguishing between reds and greens but if its any consolation the discreoances are usually minor except in very low levels of light.

Answer 3

Red is green at night. Green is red during the day. Blue turns black at sundown. Black is white during the day. White is always white except during the full moon. Purple is just a different shade of blue. Orange has no rhyming word in the English language, unless you include door hinge, which is two words. Blue is red. Red is green. green is white white is gray pink is olive grape is orange strawberry is fig fig is apple roses are red violets are blue two is three four is two.

Answer 4

This question as alwas been with me, there is no way to tell as if a sientest asked 100 people to poit out green they would poit to the same one because that is what thay see is green and we couldnt tell as my green could be your red but we just can't tell as we can't see what they see!!!

Hopefully we will work it out some da, but not right now :-(

Hope this helped!!!

Answer 5

I had asked this question before, only you have added new depth to it, you ask of colors "unimaginable" by the first party. which would be quite interesting, if it were so.

the answer I was looking for remained illusive, ppl gave me some scientific mumbo jumbo.
but what you want to know is more philosophical, abstract, or imaginary right?

what is percieved as opposed to what is seen!

as a conclusion I deemed the question 'unanswerable'. as, how could one ever possibly find this out?
even if we take it to extremes and use telepathy or such things, wont we still percieve the information in "our" way?

here's the link to the question if you want to browse through the 10 or so replies (about five of which are worth reading)
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Al2K3ESyH9d0MUCA3Q.gc9jsy6IX?qid=20070203204504AAiGPUM

Answer 6

How the hell can we all see diffrent colors, I mean really, if I see red, you see red, we see the same color. If I look at a bus, and the bus is blue, and I ask the guy next to me what color the bus is, he's gonna say blue not green.

Answer 7

None of us necessarily "see" the same color red - let alone the same thing. We recognize things by our past experience and then filter things based on that past experience. The fact is, many people are color blind and they may not see red at all.

Answer 8

No, i don't think so. The only color I can clearly distinguish without getting confused are blue, black and white, and fuschia pink(even then sometimes i see them as red). Other colors I mix them up in confusion with different colors.I have a hard time telling what color it is when they are in their shades.

Answer 9

While we most likely all see colors the same way, it's possible that we, especially certain people, perceive colors differently. Different animals do, but as far as we know, people probably see them the same.

Answer 10

Well unless you are color blind, or think red is green then when you see red, i would see red.